Hello fellow VR explorers
I have a question - one that has been asked (kind of), but rarely at that.
What happens to me, is that after I plug the phone in, OCCASIONALLY the Oculus connection sound will be heard.
Whether it does or doesn't, doesn't matter. It still only shows a black screen and a small white "x" in the left hand bottom corner.
When disconnecting the phone from the Gear VR, I get a brief "Calibrating Gear VR" message, and then the display returns to the home screen.
My Gear VR does not work on my phone (which is a
Galaxy S6), but it seems to working flawlessly with a friends Galaxy Note.
So I can at least establish that the problem is within the phone.
Solutions I've tried so far:
Soft reset the phone
Hard reset the phone
Update the phone to newest android build
Apply more pressure when plugging in the phone to the Gear
"Wiggling" the phone when plugging in
Installing custom roms / old android builds
Absolutely nothing is working and I've gone to
EVERY phone repair shop to request assistance, but they all just didn't know either.
ANY HELP IS VERY, VERY, appreciated.
Answers
They gave me no more information as to what will be done to fix my issue.
I'm pretty sure the version you got that works with the Note 4 isn't the same as the version that works with the S6. They have a different gear vr because the Note 4 and S6 are different sizes.
https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/49696/frozenpeas-sketchbook
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/FrozenPeaSculpts
Thanks for trying to help though!
Anyway, I am listening to Samsung support and going to get my headset tested on even more devices at Best Buy. Posting results here.
So it's either a software or hardware problem with my phone. Stock, no root. Tried uninstalling/reinstalling the Oculus software and noticed that a couple apps could not be uninstalled.
I get two kinds of errors, and none of it is with the power cord attached. One error is the "calibrating Gear VR" screen. Which I noticed gets calibrated sometimes but just for a second and then freezes again. The other is the BSOD with the white x on the lower corners. One at a time. Tried pressing the x with no luck, maybe need a third hand and pen to do it.
For a while I thought the Gyroscope on the phone was borked but I learned that the Gyro is in the headset. And the headset works fine with another phone. So maybe the "calibrating gear vr" is not the problem but something else is slowing the cpu so much that the message is just a consequence of the freeze, not a cause. I dunno.
I have the two com.falsebook apps but I haven't done a hard reset as it doesn't seem to matter.
My next move will be to back up my wife's app and install on mine. In the mean time, this is a problem that both Samsung and Oculus need to look into as my Gear VR was working fine until not too long ago. Consumer Edition!
I had an issue where the new VR goggles for the Note 7 was not automatically responding when the Note 7 was attached.
The VR goggles had previously worked. Once noticing my switch was set to unlocked, I realized my issue. After changing this to locked, everything was working as expected.
Hope this feedback applies to the other versions of VR goggles and phone models.
Even i am facing the same problem can any one post the correct working solution?